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The Honorable Judge Dummus
Paperback
Publisher: Shane P Miller
Published: Jun 8 2026
Pages: 526
Weight: 1.33
Height: 1.17 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In Tumble Fork, Judge Bartholomew Dummus is brilliant, baffling, and famously three bricks shy of a load. He consults mules, distrusts commas, and issues rulings that sound foolish until they leave crooked men exposed. Vesta Raye, a beautiful, sharp-tongued Black woman tired of being called trouble for defending herself, has no patience for another man trying to handle her life. But when Dummus protects her dignity, honors her name, and courts her with awkward, exacting sincerity, she begins to see the steady heart beneath the odd habits.
Their marriage is tested when polished land agent Silas Vetch tries to steal Vesta's family land through forged papers, old lies, and public pressure. With witnesses, memory, law, and love standing together, Tumble Fork learns that justice is not always neat, common sense is rarely common, and a man may be missing a few bricks yet still build a wall strong enough to stand.
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